Susan Oliver - Actress

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Susan Oliver always plays parts that at some point test her with a wide range of emotional highs and lows, much more so than most acting parts.  In this part she plays someone who is firmly fixed on a goal that pits her against everyone in the town in Amity who knew her family.  She's in a struggle against the past and the town to move her mother from a pauper's grave to a paid plot that puts her mother in a prominent place.  She plays a strong willed and aggrieved young woman who wants to set the past right when it comes to her long dead mother.  The story of how and why the town is against the move is held back until the end.  She plays an angry and tortured daughter of a mother whom she now only wants to get even by moving her.  She wants to be free of her anger and sees this as her only way.  While it makes little sense to most when thinking of this situation it made for a strong

"God Willing, I'll be by before I leave, " were her last words. to her aunt.  Crying at the graveside she lets go of her anger and says , "poor woman, momma."

It was a sad but emotionally satisfying ending. 


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As for Susan Oliver the actress, her beauty is preserved on film long after the ravages of cancer and treatment took her life.  She played many parts (128) in her shortened acting career which only accentuate the loss to the art of acting and entertainment.